Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 24, 2011

Sigh…

LOL!

Oh, Oh!

All the warning signs are there. Will anyone listen?

Mom knows better, Calvin. Will you never learn?

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

This is one of my favorite Calvin and Hbbbes strips!

Conceptually this is Calvin at his very best. And all you guys can do is “Sigh”, “LOL” and “Oh Oh”.

What a bunch of morons…

caratacas, tough day today?

Mrs. Wormwood should have known who she was dealing with……..

Mrs Wormwood does know who she is dealing with. Otherwise it would have been Child Services at the door! He’s in for a backfire with this plan… lil’ devil

Nothing like that happened at my house, but my parents made sure I knew when I did something wrong-just standard things like belts to my rear, soap in my mouth, and not letting me watch TV or play video games for certain amount of time.

A case of teacher overreaction.

@Derkins

Soap in the mouth is abuse, it’s not “just a standard thing”.

What a boo boo! well that is not good Calvin to put ur mom in trouble..but then..u are meant to be for that… lolz..

**Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

Always the rats!!!!

Now and then I come across a strip I’d never seen before. This is great.

I would have loved to read the rest of Calvin’s essay before Ms Wormwood sent him off to the prinicipal’s office.

How about it, Hobbes? Can you smuggle us a copy?

This strip is a throwback to bygone days. In this new millennium, Mom and Dad could have just duct taped Calvin to a chair…. of course, he wouldn’t have had his hands free to write his essay…..

I’m just impressed that he did his work!

This is going to be another “He said/she said” meeting. We’ll never know the real truth.

Little guys have vivid imaginations, as does this one, but they seldom get into print … good going, Calvin. And don’t let the adult world ruin you.

I’m with caratacus. I was that Calvin 52 years ago.

I’m with caratacus. I was that Calvin 52 years ago.

Miss Wormwood assigned the class a writing assignment. Calvin wrote it! What more does she want? :-D

This was Watterson at his best, his imagination coming through so well in Calvin. And Marg, you are way too nice!

Calvin, don’t you know that being placed in an orphanage or foster home will be worse?

caratacas, it’s better to keep your ignorance private, rather than write and show it. Take a couple of asperin and go back to bed.

Love it. I agree with Kis, she DOES know. Should be more fun ahead.

…maybe miss wormwood is just looking for some good tips…

Why deny it? You really think Ms. Wormwood hasn’t thought of it herself? She may just want to discuss which type of padlock is most secure.

Yes rogue53, if chains work at home maybe they will work at school. But alas, it is all a fantasy as nothing can restrain Calvin.

This is too funny….have to have such patience with a child like Calvin…lol

The best and brightest kids can be such stinkers! So hard to civilize.

I knew a very bright man who had to go into a Psych ward for his mental problems. He knew enough to run rings around the docs–but was just sane enough to know that he really needed their help, and so cooperated. He said that a lot of the projects and activities were really juvenile–but he did them.

Hes involving his parents in his education . I did too and so did my kids.

I believe Ms. Wormwood knows Calvin well and so does the principle. I heard from the school when my son was small he used class time to draw a picture the school thought was bad instead of class assignment. He got in trouble for it. Typical boy.

At least they feed him meat and not gruel…

ratlum .. Love your spin on this ….

I think I love Calvin so much because he reminds me of my son. He pulled this same stunt when he was in 5th grade. He wrote an essay about home life that included bugs in his bedroom along with many other colorful descriptors. He made it sound like we lived in an abandoned building! Talk about embarrassing. I was so mad at him! It’s funny how all these years later….it’s really kinda funny.

Good point lestats, Calvin only fed his dad gruel when he kept him locked up in the basement.

Keep up the great work Calvin, I love it! Your moms gonna kill you and so is your dad! I have loved this comic since the very first day it was first shown and still love reading them. They are so funny! Bill Watterson is a Genius!

I haven’t read the other comments yet, but I think in our present times, the family services would be on the doorstep to rescue Calvin and check things out thanks to a call from the school….unless the teacher is well aware of Calvin’s imagination.

Son chained in basement ‘possessed by an evil female genie…’ “Chains” - The Cookies (1962) “Life is a Rat Race” - Phil Collins (1985)

Perfect day for this strip. Was down with the blues, and I mean Real Bad but, my li’l monster cheered me up. I laughed out loud. Couldn’t help it :-))

Thank you Bill Watterson. You must have been something else as a child. :-D

Perfect day for this strip. Was down with the blues, and I mean Real Bad but, my li’l monster cheered me up. I laughed out loud. Couldn’t help it :-))

Thank you Bill Watterson. You must have been something else as a child. :-D

Ha ha… this is my favorite Calvin and Hobbes ever! I was having a rough day too… what perfect timing for this one to run!

Calvin’s brilliance as a lawyer/politician coming to the fore once more. This one really gave me a laugh. I can just see Calvin’s father, after the meeting, asking his wife if she was absolutely sure that he was the father of Calvin. And for dinner? Fireworks, of course….

That’s just the best ever! It’s like when you’re in the store and your kid gets made at you because you won’t buy him a toy or take him somewhere after shopping and starts screaming, “Ow, stop hitting me, you’re always beating me, help!’ or my personal favorite, “Stop touching me, help, you’re not my mother, help, somebody get a policeman!”

Today Nancy Grace and the SWAT team would be kicking the door in!

Thankfully the teacher knows Calvin’s full of it up to his eyeballs; otherwise, Children’s Social Services would be standing on their doorstep checking things out … constantly!!!

Meanwhile ~~~

Even if Calvin really were chained up in his basement with the rats fighting over the meat, his spirit would still be free … and laying in bed laughing his rear-end off, I’m sure!!!!!

…and people are surprised to find out that in Nature, some species eat their young…

Most teachers I know would give any kid an A for writing something like that.

It’s not that easy, Calvin! lol

So, Calvin is fine with being chained in the basement if there are no rats.

Is the meat cooked? What kind is it?

Calvin, you should be grateful mom feeds the rats. If the get hungry enough, they will eat a person. Dead or Alive

Awesome stuff!

Um…Dino-1…it sounds like you had this experience…maybe as the kid? :-)

Calvin’s impression about those “Rosalyn Evenings” :o)

Calvin always was and will be the best comic strip in existence. I always made a b-line for the newspaper during ‘study hall’ back in high school just so I could read the newest Calvin and Hobbes strip.

His imagination; incredible, his sarcasm, a complete riot; and his Dad was always giving him plenty of opportunities to ‘build character’ which obviously vastly increased his adorable yet slightly warped personality.

Calvin; a real kid in America today, or perhaps a child possessing a mere 15%-30% of Calviness, simply would not exist. At 6 months old, he would’ve been mis-diagnosed with ADHD, multiply personalities, accused of being unable to recognize authority, extremely rebellious, etc. They’d shove all sorts of medication into him, find someone to blame for his ‘behavior and lock them up, then destroy what was once a happy child with years of ‘therapy’.

We’re all lucky he was created before the “Psychiatrists for Perpetually Prescribing People Pills” invaded our world!

Here is another C&H comic that was from this website. Great work isn’t it?

http://chimac.net/2010/09/07/calvin-and-hobbes-comic-strip-september-06-2010-on-gocomics-com-2/

LMAO